Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , she wondered , when she had effectively let him off the hook ? |
| 2 | Without naming names , he goes on to outline the situations which had so interested him in the cases of the Melanesians and the Tari Furora , as he points out that to tamper with the pattern of primitive culture at one point is to endanger the whole structure . |
| 3 | His present celebrity is a fairly recent phenomenon , and he insists that it has not really affected him , although he acknowledges that his appearances on television shows and in magazine profiles have somewhat robbed him of the anonymity which still clings to his ‘ invisible ’ friend , Cartier-Bresson . |
| 4 | She had rarely seen him outside the context of the family . |
| 5 | Well he 's probably just caught him on the back of on the back of the calf but er I thought it was as you say I thought it was a nice sharp incisive tackle . |
| 6 | ‘ Bailey 's already briefed him on the telephone but he wo n't know you 're in charge of the operation until he gets here . |
| 7 | ‘ God has already shown him by the lightnings what I do think he already knew in his heart . |
| 8 | His chest hurt and he felt sick , as if someone had just kicked him in the gut . |
| 9 | His first-rate performances — in Hotel in New Hampshire , and as a retarded man in Square Dance — were largely unhonoured , and his many other movies were n't hot , Worse , he had to scrabble out from a confusion of drink , drugs and sexual adventure that had finally landed him in the tabloids and the jokebooks . |
| 10 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 11 | We 'd just settled him along the back seat when I realised that he would need some money . |
| 12 | I 've just asked him about the collaborative review the focus is apparently on national curriculum so that means maths , English and , but they want to look ge more general issues and because they 're in on a Wens Tuesday and a Wednesday he said that they would go in a look at , three of them would go in a look at taught tutorial lessons they will want to talk to me about the tutorial programme I would hope that that would involve somebody else cos I 've got the bit of the fence that I sit on and ask one or two of you to give your opinion if , if you 're available . |
| 13 | I have just left him in the park . |
| 14 | Peter Powell 's adventures with kites had already put him into the headlines when he ‘ flew ’ his grandmother , long before he perfected the diamond-shaped stunter that made him a worldwide name from 1974 . |
| 15 | In either case , a court which revokes the order following a breach will be empowered to sentence the offender as if it had just convicted him of the original offence . |
| 16 | Anthony would probably move on sooner or later ; his bosses , two Anglo-Italian academics , had already warned him about the carelessness of his work . |
| 17 | Zen had hardly heard him at the time , shocked by the sight of the man he had been summoned to Perugia to save Iying naked on a plastic sheet with a thermometer sticking out of his anus . |
| 18 | She had hardly seen him over the last months . |
| 19 | With a nervous swallow he bearded the formidable young lady at the desk at the head of the room : she had always struck him as the sort of librarian who would prefer to see all the desks in her domain empty and all the books permanently under lock and key . |
| 20 | His insistence that our sun should be preeminent also predisposed him toward the belief that previously invisible stars , now revealed by Galileo 's telescope , had been too small rather than too distant to be seen . |
| 21 | You might see a pair of long johns , then long johns , and a pair of socks , but Paul said they 've opened windows and Trevor said it 's nearly knocked him off the ladder . |
| 22 | But it had not really exposed him to the form of politics that he was about to encounter again in France — parliamentary politics . |
| 23 | I knew the farmer who was hiding him , Signor Merli , because I had often met him in the bank , and I knew he was a very honest and reliable man who would never betray anybody . |
| 24 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 25 | If that decision has now put him in the casualty ward , it has equally kept him from the sanatorium . |
| 26 | The public , who have often neglected him in the past , have made The Fellow a short price favourite for this afternoon 's King George in the expectation that the French raider will win his second successive Boxing Day showpiece . |
| 27 | Mr Mandela , for his part , according to Mr Ramaphosa , had ‘ a unique greatness ’ , a magnetism which he felt in his presence on Tuesday before he had even looked him in the eye . |
| 28 | Rauti replaced the much younger Gianfranco Fini who had narrowly defeated him for the post in December 1987 [ see p. 35989 ] . |
| 29 | I have even seen him at the hairdresser 's , supporting her head as her hair is washed . |
| 30 | ‘ We heard that you 've even got him in the house . ’ |